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The paper argues that the Ghanaian migration-development policy initiatives are attempts to symbolically include international migrants in the nation and to constitute them as a patriotic and governable population. The policies thereby send a signal to migrants as well as to other states of the Ghanaian state’s ambition to perform sovereignty in the sense of controlling subjects and resources – even if they are located outside the national territory. Migration-development initiatives thus also function as a policy spectacle where the government signals that it is taking its responsibility as a migrant-sending state seriously.